Blogs / 2014 / July

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	Onboarding Best Practices

	Good Guy = Bad Manager :: Bad Guy = Good Manager. Is it a Myth?

	Five Interview Tips for Winning Your First $100K+ Job

	Base Pay Increases Remain Steady in 2007, Mercer Survey Finds

	Online Overload: The Perfect Candidates Are Out There - If You Can Find Them

	Cartus Global Survey Shows Trend to Shorter-Term International Relocation Assignments

	New Survey Indicates Majority Plan to Postpone Retirement

	What do You Mean My Company’s A Stepping Stone?

	Rewards, Vacation and Perks Are Passé; Canadians Care Most About Cash

	Do’s and Don’ts of Offshoring

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Blogs / 2014 / July

Work life balance is a flawed concept. I don’t know a single successful person who feels like they have mastered the equation. Yet the myth of the perfectly balanced life haunts us. We know what it looks like: reasonable work hours, time for exerc... More...

Recruiting sales professionals can be a daunting task for even the most seasoned recruiter. They are almost always on the move in the never ending quest to beat their numbers. Grabbing the attention of a top performer — even for Continue reading → ht... More...

In this Work4 roundup, we look at the four best recruiting blog posts and articles we found in the HR-sphere this week. * Is your career site optimized for mobile? A recent Glassdoor survey found 9 in 10 job seekers Continue reading → http://www.wor... More...

Today, social media for recruiting has gone from optional to a must-have. With over half of all job seekers regularly logging into social media sites, recruiters now have the ability to reach billions of potential candidates every day. On Tuesday, Co... More...

This time in June has special meaning for us at Work4. Way, way back — in early 2010 — social media was beginning to go mainstream. Facebook had more than 500 million users, and Twitter and LinkedIn were gaining momentum Continue reading → http://www... More...

In this Work4 roundup, we look at the top four articles we found in the HR-sphere this week. * Take the pain out of recruiting millennials with these five tips from Debbie Fledderjohann. * RecruitingBlogs takes a look at the Continue reading → http... More...

With over 1.31 Billion registered users, Facebook is a great place to find and engage with talent. But how can you break through the flood of social media activity on a potential applicant’s timeline? Join us on Tuesday, July 1 Continue reading → htt... More...

Sure, you probably know that social media is a great and inexpensive way to recruit new talent. But simply creating a social media account, posting a few messages and waiting for contacts to find you is not going to cut Continue reading → http://www.... More...

A common misconception I often find myself debunking is that risks related to “the people part” of business are somehow less quantifiable and manageable than other types of business risks. As we have begun to further shape and prove that a business’... More...

It is known all too well that unengaged employees cost your company business. But what is seldom realized (or not realized, until it’s too late) is the cost that an organization absorbs when incentive programs are not well-utilized by the pool of po... More...

Recognize This! – Energy ebbs and flows over time, but we can help employees re-engage when we identify and address key areas of fatigue. I had the opportunity to present at SHRM in Orlando this week. I was gratified to have a full session at ... More...

How HR Is Falling Behind Changes In The Workforce If you ask executives or line managers what the role of Human Resources is in their company you will likely receive the politically correct response like this one: “The mission of Human Re... More...

“Soliciting feedback” is just what the words imply. It is when we solicit opinions from people about what we are doing wrong. As simple as it sounds, it is not always so simple. Most people have two problems dealing with … Continue reading → http://f... More...

In this edition of Five Links, we're looking at the mechanics of advertising, VC Backed Startups, Disruption, Tech Culture and Silicon Valley hiring. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HRExaminer/~3/uOxAow0_XxI/ More...

A California appellate court recently issued a warning to employees who try to negotiate settlements with their employers by making veiled threats to report an employer's real or imagined criminal activity. In Stenehjem v. Sareen, No. H038342 (Cal. ... More...

The conversation continues on whether a company needs or should retain an attorney to represent it before the EEOC. Where better to mine the views of employment attorneys than the LinkedIn group run by the ABA Employment Committee? As expected, l... More...

If you think that dispute with a coworker can easily be brushed off, it may be time to reconsider. For women especially, such negative interactions can seriously impact overall health, according to recent work from a Carnegie Mellon University rese... More...

By Eva Woo, Director of Product Marketing at SuccessFactors. (Originally posted on SAP Community Network) I recently had the pleasure of hosting 70 business execs from Latin America. They’re attending the IPADE (PanAmerican Institute for High Busines... More...

Sustainability gets a lot of attentions these days… and rightly so. As a society, we’re bringing greater consciousness to the preservation and endurance of the environment, energy, and more. Yet, there’s one precious natural resource that rarely gets... More...

The project leader of an information technology company gathers her project team in the conference room and announces, “the early results from our software release are in and it’s a colossal failure”. No project leader wants to say these words and th... More...

“Why are we doing it this way?” I was asked this question just the other day—a question that every employee... http://blog.silkroad.com/index.php/2014/07/why-are-we-doing-it-this-way/ More...

“Why are we doing it this way?” I was asked this question just the other day—a question that every employee... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/silkroad-ink-talent-management-blog/~3/52cmz_edxIo/ More...

Paper files can cause a business serious headaches. Human Resource departments are looking towards electronic filing systems to manage employee files more efficiently. Paper filing has become more or less, extinct. Nowadays, electronic fili... More...

Recognize This! – We have the power to make our work (and home) environments more positive, simply through the words we choose to use more often. All over the news today is Facebook’s stealthy psychological experiment on users. If you’ve missed ... More...

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Why Work-Life Balance Is a Flawed Concept, And What to Do Instead

Recruiting Top Performing Sales Pros

Work4 Weekly: Mobile’s Role in Recruiting, What HR Meme Are You & More

Webinar: How to Recruit Talent on Social Media – The Tools & Strategies Used by Top Companies

Work4 Turns 4

Work4 Weekly: Take the Pain Out of Recruiting Millennials, the Hardest Jobs to Fill in Healthcare & More

Webinar: How to Master Facebook Ads for Recruiting

How To Use the Top Six Social Media Platforms for Recruiting

Talent Risks CAN be Measurably Assessed and Managed – a Practical List

Engagement, gamification and your incentive programs

5 Types of Fatigued Employees & How to Help them Re-Engage

How HR is Falling Behind in WFP

HR Falling Behind in Workforce

Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Ask

Five Links: How It Works

"Pay Me, Or Else…": California Court Rules Employee's Pre-Litigation Qui Tam Threat is Extortionate

Fly Solo Before The EEOC? Better Think Twice

Here’s Proof that Bad Working Relationships Truly Impact Women’s Health

Diversity in the workplace helps your organization and your customers

Sustainability and Focus

What’s a Premortem and Why Do You Need One?

Why are we doing it this way?

Why are we doing it this way?

Electronic Filing System Helps HR Manage Employee Files More Efficiently

Sticks & Stones… * Why the Emotional Intent of Your Words Matter